“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.”
Quotes about jealousy
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“Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!”
“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!”
“There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.”
“There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”
“Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.”
“Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.”
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”
“I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.”
“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”
“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
“People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.”
“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
“Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”
“He that is jealous is not in love.”
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
“That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.”